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ORIGINAL: Templer

I want an option to stop the time running when a 'flash report' and/or an 'urgent report' message comes up.

ORIGINAL: Arjuna

.....you want a bigger picture frame and you're volunteering to get the necessary larger public domain images.

• a) respected,
• b) researched,

ORIGINAL: Templer
I concretises.
Of course, I mean an auto-stop!

Sometimes I'm so absorbed by the game map and the counters, or even distracted, that I did not notice one or more reports.

So please an optional auto - stop.

ORIGINAL: Templer

ORIGINAL: Templer

I want an option to stop the time running when a 'flash report' and/or an 'urgent report' message comes up.

I concretises.
Of course, I mean an auto-stop!

Sometimes I'm so absorbed by the game map and the counters, or even distracted, that I did not notice one or more reports.

So please an optional auto - stop.

ORIGINAL: Perturabo

ORIGINAL: Templer

ORIGINAL: Templer

I want an option to stop the time running when a 'flash report' and/or an 'urgent report' message comes up.

I concretises.
Of course, I mean an auto-stop!

Sometimes I'm so absorbed by the game map and the counters, or even distracted, that I did not notice one or more reports.

So please an optional auto - stop.

Also, a customizable auto-pause - for example I would be interested almost exclusively in pausing on messages about air strikes.

And while we're at it, ability to customize auto-save (time and amount of files). I can't use the current autosave because it saves the game too often and in too many files.

ORIGINAL: wodin

I wouldn't want the UI expanded to much..only having a 19inch monitor means real estate is lacking..

ORIGINAL: Templer

ORIGINAL: Perturabo

ORIGINAL: Templer


I concretises.
Of course, I mean an auto-stop!

Sometimes I'm so absorbed by the game map and the counters, or even distracted, that I did not notice one or more reports.

So please an optional auto - stop.

Also, a customizable auto-pause - for example I would be interested almost exclusively in pausing on messages about air strikes.

And while we're at it, ability to customize auto-save (time and amount of files). I can't use the current autosave because it saves the game too often and in too many files.

A customizable auto-pause when reinforcements appear!
How many times I have already starve my reinforcements. [:(]

ORIGINAL: ComradeP

I like the unpredictability of how battles will go, but I'd be interested in playing battles that start slightly earlier (by a few hours) than the ones in BftB. The reason is that in the current case, the opening can "feel" more like a puzzle than a battle when you have average quality units. My VG units tend to be a) cut down by the hundreds or b) make a clean penetration of Allied lines. I'm still new to the series in terms of how much time I've invested in it, but the above does seem to be the pattern.

Maybe victory points could also be balanced slightly towards inflicting casualties on the enemy being worth more points. I regularly find myself losing scenarios after destroying the enemy's capability to resist, just because I didn't capture a couple of villages on time (also because the capture system can be somewhat unforgiving as it is based on occupation time and not unit strength, the regimental mascot can theoretically capture a village as quickly as a battalion), villages that in the greater scheme of the Ardennes offensive would mostly be of limited value, whereas weakening the American or German forces could turn the tide in an entire sector.

The objectives themselves are not dynamic, so even though you can say "those were the historical objectives, so they should be captured at time X", keep in mind that the scenarios are not individual operations, but part of a larger offensive. If you destroy an enemy unit, it won't be there to defend objectives beyond those on the current map, so the timetable of the offensive might not be in jeopardy if you capture a village a day late.

Many wargames "forget" that, which leads to gamey last stands at objectives that would be largely irrelevant if you'd play a campaign game for that offensive. That, in turn, means I don't always have the feeling I'm participating in the offensive or the defense against that offensive.

Having slightly more time to position my forces and plan my own strategy would help me. Note that as the player's units would be further away from the enemy line at the start, this wouldn't give him a gamey advantage: the AI also has more time to prepare its defenses.

Just my 2 cents, however. I can see why people are very happy with the current state of the game/simulation, I can only comment on my own experience.

• a) spotted enemy units/positions along its route
• b) back to HQ (which would put it back under the player's control and which would reveal it's actual position )

ORIGINAL: DanO

Thanks for the links!

However, the features listed seem to be mainly about additional layers provided by the engine, i.e. information overlays and graphics related to triggers and the like.

I think we both want to be able to do our own drawing, to draw out our plans on the map as though on a transparency.

ORIGINAL: jimcarravallah
How about a utility to export the current map situation to an image (BMP, JPG) file that can be exported as a graphic for planning?

Instead of burdening the software with maintaining an "current" and a "planning" cache in real time, the "current" can be exported to a separate program for planning purposes.

It's little different from what goes on in a combat operations center where real time graphics are pinned to a wall and tactical / strategic specialists move pins around on the map to determine the best options for progressing from the last known deployment of friendly and enemy forces.